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Shot by Erickson photographer captures Idaho wildfire and meteor

Erickson photographer Eric Zook captured Idaho’s Parker Ridge wildfire and the Perseids meteor shower on Aug. 12...
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Erickson photographer Eric Zook captured this shot on Aug. 12.

Photographers across the province have had ample opportunity to capture nature in action this summer as wildfires rage.

Erickson photographer Eric Zook took it a step further, capturing the action on the ground and in the sky, when he captured this shot of Idaho’s Parker Ridge wildfire and a meteor — not to mention, of course, the Milky Way — on the evening of Aug. 12 during the Perseids meteor shower.

He took the 25-second exposure from the top of Mount Thompson, east of Creston, where he was able to shoot above the wildfire’s smoke.